Signature Reliability Evaluation of Renewable Energy System

Abstract

In this paper, a real-life renewable energy-based system is considered and the reliability function of this system is evaluated with the help of Universal Generating
Function technique. The renewable energy-based system is considered from the project in Germany where the wind turbine and hydropower plant are combined. In this project, the wind turbines are the world's tallest wind turbines of about 584 feet and one reservoir has the capacity of 1.6 million gallons of water. The wind turbines are set at the top of the hills and the reservoirs are allowed to filled with river water. This paper presents a renewable energy-based system where the wind turbine and hydropower plant are combined to produce electricity in bulk. The universal generating function technique is used to obtain the reliability function of the proposed system. Also, tail signature, signature, expected cost rate, expected lifetime, and Barlow-Proschan Index are estimated.